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Bill Strickland & Manchester Bidwell Corporation Host Experts’ Discussion on Education Reform Following Screening of “Waiting for ‘Superman’” on December 2, 2010 at 6 p.m.
Executive producer of “Waiting for ‘Superman’” Jeff Skoll joins academic innovators in offering solutions for a more comprehensive and efficient educational system.
– National and local leaders and community members will convene at the SouthSide Works Cinema for a private screening of “Waiting for ‘Superman’” immediately followed by Q&A with:
· Eric Adler, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The SEED Foundation of Washington, D.C.
· William Isler, Pittsburgh Public Schools Board of Education Second Vice President
· Grant D. H. Oliphant, President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation
· Jeff Skoll, Founder and Chairman, Participant Media and Board Member of The National Center for Arts & Technology
· William E. “Bill” Strickland, President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and The National Center for Arts & Technology
Manchester Bidwell Corporation (MBC)’s President and CEO Bill Strickland and Board Chair Clifford R. Rowe have organized this event to target the possibilities and pitfalls of the current educational system as well as presenting a solution. “We believe we have part of the answer to issues afflicting the United States’ educational system. Our fusion of mentorship, education, beauty, and hope creates an empowering educational environment where our students — youth in arts education and adults in career training — can feel comfortable learning,” says Strickland.
The numbers support MBC’s solution. The job placement rate for career training graduates of diploma and degree majors offered by MBC’s subsidiary Bidwell Training Center is 78 percent as of the latest Annual Report to Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology, submitted November 2009. Additionally, nearly 400 teens–primarily from Pittsburgh Public Schools– enrolled in at least one of the 48 after school studio arts courses offered by MBC’s subsidiary Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild during the 2009-10 school year.
The National Center for Arts & Technology (NCAT), another of MBC’s subsidiaries, is dedicated to spreading this cure by helping create similar academic and cultural centers across the United States and the world. NCAT has four operational affiliate centers including: BAYCAT in San Francisco, CA; CATC in Cincinnati, OH; WMCAT in Grand Rapids, MI; and our most recent, NewBridge, in Cleveland, OH. Fourteen other national and international cities are in various stages of planning or feasibility studies.
The screening and panel discussion are held in conjunction with NCAT’s national board meeting and will be attended by many members of the NCAT board.
About Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its subsidiaries
At Manchester Bidwell Corporation, we have a simple philosophy – environment shapes people’s lives. By constructing an atmosphere of art, light, music and supportive staff, we enable our students to become productive society members. We do this through two programs: Bidwell Training Center provides nationally accredited and state licensed adult career training while Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild’s Youth & Arts program serves public school students by offering courses in our ceramics, design, digital and photography studios. We are so confident in our vision that we founded the National Center for Arts & Technology to create similar educational environments across the nation … and the world!
At Manchester Bidwell Corporation, we have a simple philosophy – environment shapes people’s lives. By constructing an atmosphere of art, light, music and supportive staff, we enable our students to become productive society members. We do this through two programs: Bidwell Training Center provides nationally accredited and state licensed adult career training while Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild’s Youth & Arts program serves public school students by offering courses in our ceramics, design, digital and photography studios. We are so confident in our vision that we founded the National Center for Arts & Technology to create similar educational environments across the nation … and the world!
About Jeff Skoll and Participant Media
Jeff Skoll, philanthropist and social entrepreneur, is the founder & chairman of Participant Media, the Skoll Foundation, and the Skoll Global Threats Fund. As eBay’s first full-time employee and first president, Skoll developed the company’s inaugural business plan and led its IPO. In 1999, he started the Skoll Foundation, now the world’s largest social entrepreneurship foundation. In 2004, Skoll founded Participant Media, an independent global media company creating entertainment inspiring and compelling social change such as the 2007 Oscar®-winning documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”Other PUM Stories
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